- As pioneers of birth control (Eugenists) and of the sexual revolution, Goldman, Stopes and Sanger were well endowed with these qualities. They knew each other well and were, in turn, best friends, bitter enemies and fierce competitors.
Iowa. - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW wrote: "The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man." - BERTRAND RUSSELL suggested that the state issue colour-coded procreation tickets. - H. G. WELLS hailed eugenics as the first step toward the removal of "detrimental types and characteristics". - Keynes endorsed legalised birth control because the working class was too "drunken and ignorant" to be trusted to keep its own numbers down. - MARIE STOPES and MARY STOCKS "were not motivated by a kind of proto-feminism, but rather by the urge to reduce the numbers of the burgeoning lumpenproletariat". - BEATRICE WEBB was sure her genetic material was worth preserving, describing herself as 'the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation of the world" - her magazine - THE NEW STATESMAN declared in 1931: - "The legitimate claims of eugenics are not inherently incompatible with the outlook of the collectivist movement. On the contrary, they would be expected to find their most intransigent opponents amongst those who cling to the individualistic views of parenthood and family economics." - SOCIALISTS (Fabian or otherwise) ONE AND ALL...